lighthouse-compare-urls

CLI tool to compare two URLs via Google's Lighthouse to check for performance differences.

Useful for comparing an staging URL with changes against a current live site to see the performance impact of changes.

Results are exported as XLSX file in results directory.

Install

• npm install lighthouse-compare-urls -g

Run

• lighthouse-compare-urls --urls "[URL 1],[URL 2]", e.g. lighthouse-compare-urls --urls "https://google.com.au,https://google.co.uk"
• If you supply more than two the URLs will be split up into multiple tests of two URLs, e.g. lighthouse-compare-urls --urls "https://google.com.au,https://google.com,https://www.google.co.uk/,https://www.google.fr"

Options:

• --urls "[URL 1],[URL 2]" (required) supply URLs to be tests
• --jsonExport export all Lighthouse results (large file) to /results

Test

• npm test and npm run test:watch. Tests are written in Jest.